The tax system in EU member states, including Italy, "tends to rely heavily on labor taxation, which can depress both labor supply and demand." The European Commission writes it in the report on the tax reforms of the various countries.
According to the European Executive, therefore, attention must be focused "on the appropriate ways to shift the tax burden from work and to other types of taxation that are less harmful to growth and employment such as consumption, property and taxes environmental".
Many States, including Italy, "appear to have both a potential need to reduce the relatively high burden of taxation on labor - writes the Commission - and the potential space to increase less discursive taxes".
The 2016 Stability law of our country will instead contain the cut in taxes on first homes.
The other States involved by the Commission are Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Latvia, Hungary, Austria, Portugal, Romania, to a lesser extent Germany, Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Holland, Finland and Sweden.
